Improvement in construction of distilling apparatus



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JOHN SLOAN, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND EBERHARDH. DIERKER, OF SAME PLACE.

lWlPROVEMENT IN CONSTRUCTION OF DlSTlLLlNG APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 925,?05, dated October4, 1859.

.To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that l, JOHN SLoAN, of Pittsburg, in the county of Alleghenyand State of Pennsylvania, have invented-a new and Improved Apparatusfor Distilling Liquor; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,similar lettersreferring to similar parts.

The nature of my invention consists in furnishing the steam or heatingpipe or pipes of stills with a valve or valves for the purpose ofregulating the admission of the steam `or heat into said pipe or pipes,the valve or valves being operated by a governor Which is operated by anincased Wheel and the iiow of liquor from the condenser.

My invention also consists in dividing the still into three or morecompartments which are furnished with conducting-pipes and with one ormore steam or heating pipes which traverse the whole series of chambersor compartments.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, l willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side or face View of thestill and its parts. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the still. Fig. 3 isa top view of the still and condenser.

A, B, C, and D are the chambers of the still. The chambers B and C arefurnished with con ducting-pipes e. The heating or steam pipe (marked d)enters near the top of chamber A, passing around and down it, enterschamber B at the bottom, passing around and up it, enters chamber O nearthe top, and passes around, down, and out at the bottom. The ingress andegress of pipe ci is seen in Fig. 2 at 7 and 8. The pipe d is connectedWith a steam-boiler and furnished with a valve, as seen in Fig. l, andmarked o, which is operated by argovernor marked g. The governor g isconstructed andattached to the valve o in the ordinary Way. rlhe lowerend of the governor-shaft rests on the frame o.

x is the case for the Wheel h ,which is shown by dotted lines. The shaftor axle of Wheel h is supported at the outer end by the braces q. Theend next the still is supported by a suitable bearing made inthe case x.The shaft or axle of wheel h is furnished with a bevel- Wheel marked t',which gears into a smaller bevel-wheel which is on the shaft of thegovernor g.

4 isa vessel which contains the condenser F. i/ are the pedestals of thevesselat. o' is a conducting-pipe which is connected With the pipe orcondenser F.

l is the casing of chamber C. The operation of my improvement is asfollows: The fermented liquor is put into chamber A. The steam or heatis then let into pipe d, which Will heat the fermented liquor in chamberA and cause steam or vapor to arise from it. This steam or vapor passesinto the condensing-pipe e, and is discharged into chamber B at thebottom of the chamber. It rises up in chamber B and vpasses into theconducting-pipe e of chamber O, and is discharged into chamber c at thebottom. lt then rises up in chamber c into chamber D, from which itpasses into the condensing-pipe F in vessel 4, which is filled with coldWater. "When the steam or vapor is condensed into liquor, it passesalong pipe r, and is discharged into the funnel-mouth t of case x on theWheel h, thereby causing the Wheel to revolve. rlhe liquor as it fallsfrom the Wheel h passes out at opening a in case a0 into some suitablevessel. lf the fermented liquor is distilling too fast, the lloW ofliquor from pipe r will cause the Wheel 7L to revolve at a greaterspeed, and as the speed of the Wheel 7L increases the valve o closes bymeans of the governor g, thereby cutting off the supply of heat or steamfrom the pipe (l.

It will be observed that bythe foregoing arrangement of the still andits parts the distillation of the fermented liquor will be carried onevenly and with great speed and ease, requiring but very littleattention from the operator.

The red arrows represent the course of the heat or steam in pipe d. Theblue arrows represent the course of the vapor or steam in the pipes eand e', and in chambers A, B, O, and D as it rises from the fermentedliquor in chamber A.

Having thus described the nature, construction, and operation of myimprovement,What

2. The combination and arrangement of the chambers A, B, C, and D, withthe conducting-pipes e, when used in connection with the condensing Wormor pipe F, as herein described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN SLOAN.

Witnesses:

J AMES J. JOHNSTON, GEOVE P. STEGK.

